Southern Methodist University: Newly Discovered Jurassic Fossils are a Texas First
June 28, 2023
June 28, 2023
DALLAS, Texas, June 28 (TNSjou) -- Southern Methodist University issued the following news on June 27, 2023:
A team led by scientists at The University of Texas at Austin has filled a major gap in the state's fossil record - describing the first known Jurassic vertebrate fossils in Texas.
The weathered bone fragments are from the limbs and backbone of a plesiosaur, an extinct marine reptile that would have swum the shallow sea that covered what is now northeastern Mexic . . .
A team led by scientists at The University of Texas at Austin has filled a major gap in the state's fossil record - describing the first known Jurassic vertebrate fossils in Texas.
The weathered bone fragments are from the limbs and backbone of a plesiosaur, an extinct marine reptile that would have swum the shallow sea that covered what is now northeastern Mexic . . .